What Don Lincoln has said about Dark matter
3 quotes · 1 episode · May 29, 2026
Don Lincoln, Particle physicist at Fermilab, author and science communicator, has been quoted on Dark matter 3 times in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on May 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Lincoln says the Bullet Cluster changed his mind from favoring modified gravity or inertia to believing dark matter is real.
“The bullet cluster is strong evidence that dark matter is a real thing”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:39:35
Lincoln argues that galaxies without dark matter, such as DF2 and DF4, are paradoxically strong evidence that dark matter exists.
“the existence of a galaxy with no dark matter is very strong evidence that dark matter is real because you can take the dark matter out”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:39:35
Lincoln explains he avoids dark matter experiments because any single experiment covers only a narrow slice of the possible mass range.
“if you make an experiment that searches one mass range it'll be blind to another mass range”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln (May 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:47:26
Episodes
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don LincolnLex Fridman Podcast · May 29, 2026 · 3 h 2 min
Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln talks with Lex Fridman about unification in physics, the Higgs boson, string theory, antimatter, dark energy, and dark matter.
Don Lincoln on other topics
- Higgs boson · 3 quotes
- Theory of everything · 3 quotes
- Dark energy · 2 quotes
- Antimatter · 2 quotes
- String theory · 2 quotes
- Baryogenesis · 1 quote
- Loop quantum gravity · 1 quote